Comments on: Cooks Source: What should Judith Griggs have done?

By: “But honestly Monica…” « Rhetorical Device

“But honestly Monica…” « Rhetorical Device — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:28:08 +0000

[...] Gaidos, for her part, wanted Griggs to apologize both online and in print, and to donate $130 to the Columbia School of Journalism. But Griggs’s continued non-apologies just made people more and more scornful. [...]

By: A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk’d by Social Media | Vocanic

A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk’d by Social Media | Vocanic — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:18:04 +0000

[...] Regardless, Cook Source experienced a groundswell on their social media properties like Facebook, a Hitler video, and resulted in a variety of critical articles (Google counts over 65 mainstream media articles). [...]

By: In the World of ... | Incandescere

In the World of ... | Incandescere — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:35:37 +0000

[...] There are lessons to be learned here, not only by Cooks Source, but by publications, writers, artists and freelancers of all kinds. In many ways, our reputation is all we have and perception, sadly, is often enough to condemn us regardless of evidence. Paul Bradshaw wrote an interesting piece shortly after the story broke on Twitter two weeks ago. I think his angle is definitely worth exploring: “Cooks Source: What should Judith Griggs have done?” [...]

By: Underestimating social media; a recipe for disaster « Birddog – The Brand and Digital Consultancy that achieves Creative Change, B2B, London, Agency, Marketing Agency, Online, Strategy, Consultants, Top 20

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:17:31 +0000

[...] that the magazine was simply not au fait with how the increasingly social internet has brought a “fundamental shift in power between publisher and reader”. When Ms Griggs sent that snide email to a seasoned blogger, it is unlikely that she would even [...]

By: Thursday Threads: Refining Data, Ebook Costs, Open Bibliographic Data, Copyright Infringement | Disruptive Library Technology Jester

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:21:36 +0000

[...] details have been summarized by others. What I find useful, though, are the posts that talk about lessons learned as the internet speeds the spread of memes and how significant remedies for copyright [...]

By: Abbi

Abbi — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:48:47 +0000

You missed Judith’s most critical mistake. She has absolutely no idea how social media and the internet works. She has no idea how to close commenting on her FB wall(s). She calls unfriendly commenters “hackers”. She claimed she was “reporting” these hackers (by linking to some PDF on hacking from 1998?). She claimed in her apology that she was closing her FB pages. So far, on November 11th, this has not been the case. She just looks like an idiot from another generation who simply has no idea how Facebook and the internet works.

By: Cooks Source mob moves on to Dairy Goat Journal’s Dave Belanger | Online Journalism Blog

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:17:33 +0000

[...] via Ulrike in the comments. [...]

By: Paul Bradshaw

Paul Bradshaw — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:04:10 +0000

Oh my word. If genuine (I say that as I’m wary of hoaxes following the Griggs case) then someone ought to point him to these posts quick.

By: Ulrike

Ulrike — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:50:06 +0000

Another side effect of this blow up is that other magazines are coming under scrutiny. Suzanne McMinn (author of the Chickens in the Road blog) discovered one of her photos had been published in an unrelated magazine without her permission, for example.

http://chickensintheroad.com/living/open-letter-to-dave-belanger/

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Attack cause Intuit Web-hosting service outage? — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:04:50 +0000

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